General questions from a newbie

[curious aardvark]

yeah the anycubc printers are a pretty decent design.

The colourants used in printer filament makes a real difference to how well they print.

red is best, white is next best and black is pretty good.
Blue, not bad.
Orange - excellent.
Yellow - can be difficult, it's also the hardest colour filament for manufacturers to make - they hate it lol

Grey/silver filaments are also very good to print with.

Pla with wood is really stringy, tpu (flexible filaments) are trickier to print than non-flexibles. Red is definitely the easiest there.
Clear/transparent filaments tend to be more stringy than coloured ones. But also stronger and a little more flexible.

Just avoid abs :-)

The anycubic will print all the regular filaments - no problem.

Pet-g totally fine for a cup holder in germany :-)
I have a pet-g sink strainer that gets boiling watre poured over it regularly.
No signs of temperature effects at all.
Pretty impressive.

[omexlu]

Thanks

Found another printer "Artillery Genius" your opinions?

[Martin_au]

Good option. I'd rate it above the ender 3.

[curious aardvark]

Hmm, well the artillery genius does have dual z axis.
But it's got a bowden extruder - and a really narrow bed mounting setup.
So you're going to have bed levelling issues.

But yeah - better than an ender 3 lol

if you want to go the ender/creality route - this is proibably the least bad machine they make: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Creality3D-...strial&sr=1-28

It could do with converting to a direct drive extrduer - but other than that it';s a solid frame and a decent cartesian setup.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sovol-Extru...strial&sr=1-56
the sovol's not a bad machine. D=ual z-axis and direct drive extruder

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sovol-All-M..._t1_B07TNP914D
that's the sovol 02 - I;m not sure about the 2 in 1 out extruder. probablt works fine with just the one filament though on a 1 in 1 out basis.
So bearing that in mind i'd pick it over the 01 as most everything else has been upgraded.

[curious aardvark]

Hmm, well the artillery genius does have dual z axis.
But it's got a bowden extruder - and a really narrow bed mounting setup.
So you're going to have bed levelling issues.

But yeah - better than an ender 3 lol

if you want to go the ender/creality route - this is proibably the least bad machine they make: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Creality3D-...strial&sr=1-28

It could do with converting to a direct drive extrduer - but other than that it';s a solid frame and a decent cartesian setup.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sovol-Extru...strial&sr=1-56
the sovol's not a bad machine. D=ual z-axis and direct drive extruder

https://www.amazon.co.uk/TENLOG-Hand...strial&sr=1-93
worth a look. Dual idex extrduers, linear rails - just a nice set of quality components.

[Martin_au]

Artillery genius is direct drive.